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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 18, 1995Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1995, 4:06 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 18, 1995, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Lenoir County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1195 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 18, 2:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 2:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
208 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 1995

RAH: GOING FCST OF CHCY POPS ESPCLY THIS EVE AND THEN CONTG SLGT CHC
INTO WED EVE LUKS GUD. MNLY PC LTR WED NGT AND THU. TEMPS MID 70S
TNGT...LWR 70S WED NGT WITH UPR 80S TO ARND 90 BOTH WED AND THU.

DISC: VRY WK CD FRNT IN THE MTNS THIS AFTN SHUD GRDLY PUSH E INTO THE CSTL
ZNS ON WED. PREFRNTL TROF TO LEAD THE WAY THIS EVE AS MAIN BODY OF TSTMS
LKLY ALNG THIS FTR AND RESULTNT BNDRY INTO ERLY TNGT. BOTH ETA/NGM SOLNS SHWG
LTL UPR SPRT OR COOLING ALF AS VORT RMNS SPLIT FRM VA N AND ACRS THE SE WITH
OLD UPR LW. NGM APRS OVRDN ON AMT OF QPF(ESPLY NE)THIS EVE BUT SEEMS TO HV
LATCHED ONTO BTR FOCUS ALNG BNDRYS THAN THE ETA. WITH LTL PUSH...FRNT TO WASH
OUT NR THE CST WED WITH DRIER AIR ALF THE MN CHG AS LTL AIRMASS DIFFS NR THE
SFC. C BRZ CNVRGNC NR THE CST ENUF TO WARRANT A SLGT CHC IMMED CST WED/WED
EVE. WK HI PRES TO SLIDE E AND SHUD HELP CAP THNGS OFF ON THU. LTL THCKNSS
COOLING THRU THU AND WITH SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR IN PLC THNK TEMPS ABT STATUS
QUO ALTHO A TAD COOLER WED NGT.

CWF: GNRLY SW FETCH CONT TNGT WITH SEAS AVG JUST BLO SCA AT 5 FT. XPCT
MR WLY COMP ON WED BUT SHUD BACK TO SLY DURING THE DAY AS C BRZ DVLPS.
MNLY LGT S TO SW FLW TO HANG TUF WED NGT INTO THU AS SWELLS DIMINISH
TO ARND 3 FT WITH DEPARTURE OF CHANTAL.

.MHX...NONE.

JH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	28 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.